Two fortuitous meetings as a youth introduced Clade to drawing: an English lady who was passionate about drawing and an artist from Manosque. A gifted drawer, Clade’s talent was quickly acknowledged by those around her. After studying Literature and Foreign Civilisations, she decided to try her hand at decoration. A painter friend urged her to try painting, so she gave it a try in her studio, using a unique material of pigments mixed with ground metal, which gave a metallic effect to her painting. The success of a gallery exhibition exposing th…